I love this book, partly because of the entertainingly condescending tone: --- I know that there are many who spend morning to evening every day in go clubs,

I love this book, partly because of the entertainingly condescending tone: --- I know that there are many who spend morning to evening every day in go clubs, playing tens of games a day, but make no progress. No matter how ardent their will to learn was at the beginning, let this condition continue for two or three months, not to mention one or two years, and hope is abandoned. The player comes to recognize himself as ‘a permanent 6 kyu’ and everyone else does too. This condition is unbearable, yet how many go players find themselves in it? Almost all? If so, it would be a crime just to let them go on as they are, and that is why I am writing this book - to explain in detail what is needed to break through the barriers